(Reuters) – Brazilian soccer legend Pele has a urinary infection and might be saved in hospital for longer than his docs deliberate, the clinic the place he was being handled stated on Monday.
Pele, who has been present process chemotherapy for a colon tumor that was eliminated in September, returned to the Albert Einstein hospital on Feb. 13.
However, “during his stay routine exams were carried out that showed the presence of a urinary infection, a fact that extends his stay as a patient in the hospital,” a bulletin from the Sao Paulo clinic stated.
“His clinical conditions are stable and he should be released in the coming days.”
Widely thought of one of many best footballers of all time, the 81-year-old former Santos, New York Cosmos and Brazil participant has suffered from a sequence of well being points in current years, together with hip surgical procedure that left him with recurring ache and bother strolling unaided.
(Reporting by Andrew Downie; enhancing by Jane Wardell)
